The Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, SOKAPU, has decried the mass sacking of workers by Governor Nasir El Rufai in the state.
In a statement by its President, Comrade Jonathan Asake, SOKAPU accused El Rufai of being obsessed with destroying other traditional institutions in southern kaduna.
“Governor El-Rufai’s style of leadership since he became governor has been to dismantle all structures that ensured balance, justice, sense of fairness, inclusiveness, and unity in areas such as political appointments, provision of social amenities, infrastructural development, he has only embarked in promoting divisiveness among our peace-loving communities among others.”
“More than anything else, governor el-Rufai has maintained an adversarial disposition against the people of the state, with the community and religious leaders of Southern Kaduna extraction becoming his main targets of verbal warfare and interrogations. Without any evidence, he described Southern Kaduna leaders as “bigots and conflict entrepreneurs”, while sending some of our revered monarchs, elders, and the clergy to jail on trump-up charges and unsubstantiated claims.”
“Throughout his first tenure, there was such high level of insecurity in the state to the extent that revered Southern Kaduna monarchs were killed and others kidnapped and were only released after the payment of heavy ransom. The Adara chiefdom was not only Balkanized after the brutal assassination of the Agwom Adara in 2019 but their elders were also detained on trump-up charges for over 100 days.
“El-Rufai is also obsessed with destroying other traditional institutions in Southern Kaduna by balkanizing and renaming chiefdoms unsolicited and in an insulting manner. He also created emirates where the culture, traditions, and religious practices of the majority of the people affected are not in any way related to the emirate system”
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“We also believe that the current exercise of sacking civil servants amounts to a calculated and callous act of mischief, heartlessness, and wickedness that is set to destroy the public and Civil Service in the state, and subjugate everything under the whims and caprices of the governor. We conclude here that there is more to this exercise than meets the eye,” the statement observed.
“We call on all men and women of a good conscience, the Civil Society Organizations, NGOs, the International Community, and all those that are committed to justice and fair play not to allow these injustices caused by the administration of el-Rufai to go unchallenged but to join other voices against the current mass sack of the Kaduna state workers,” the statement read in part
